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casecandy wrote:The first known use of fuzz, period, was Grady Martin's "The Fuzz," 1961. It wasn't a pedal; the engineer pushed the levels in the studio. He was playing a Danelectro six-string bass. Imagine how this must have sounded to people who'd never heard a sound like that before. Fucking intense.

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I was familiar with Grady's innovative work with the Danelectro six-string bass... Besides playing "tic tac"... on many famous records... Grady busted out the Dano for... Marty Robbins 1961 hit "Don't Worry." ... "Don't Worry" featured Grady playing the six-string Danelectro bass, with a twist. At the recording session that day, a channel on the mixing console overloaded and started making a distorted sound. Just as engineer Glen Snoddy was ready to bypass the malfunctioning channel, Grady suggested they run the... bass through it to achieve an unusual effect. The result was the first true "fuzz" effect (different than just an overdriven amplifier) ever recorded... Snoddy liked the effect so much that he copied what had gone wrong in the channel strip and then marketed his schematic and idea to Gibson, who soon released the effect as a pedal, the Maestro Fuzz Tone, the first of its kind. In a nutshell, Grady Martin invented [fuzz] on the Danelectro bass in 1961... years before The Rolling Stones used it on "Satisfaction."

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